Quotes About Potential

I never had what it takes to make a first-rate anything.' 'That's wrong,' she declared. 'Everyone must have one thing that they can excel at. It's just a matter of drawing it out, isn't it?' But school doesn't know how to draw it out. It crushes the gift. It's no wonder most people never get to be what they want to be. They just get ground down.

Talent is like a container. You can work as hard as you want, but the size will never change. It'll only hold so much water and no more.

It must be though on you not being able to read, but it's not the end of the world. You might not be able to read, but there are things only you can do. That's what you gotta focus on - your strengths.

I was impressed by the variety of dreams and goals that life could offer.

Abundant talent is like a rich vein of water underground that finds all sorts of places to gush forth(..)

El talento es como un recipiente. La capacidad del recipiente no cambia por mucho que uno se esfuerce. Y cuando el agua llega al borde, rebosa.

At the heart of that activity is innovation: the effort to create purposeful, focused change in an enterprise's economic or social potential.

Over the years, 3M has had a policy that at least 25% of its revenue should come from products introduced within the last five years. That encourages small new ventures, which in turn offer hundreds of opportunities to test and stretch young people with leadership potential.

It depends. Are you going to be a high school basketball star?" "Probly," I said, scratching at a scab. "I'm pretty good already.

I can feel it everyday, the limit of my ability.

That was perhaps a definition of innocence: not knowing what one was capable of.

We had started thinking of ourselves not in terms of things that we had done, but in terms of what we were going to do.

If you can imagine something, then it is possible within the physical laws of this universe. So says some Greek philosopher.

I am only one, but still I am one.I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.

He makes you feel that if you only had a little more time, you, too, might be an inventor.

It is by fighting the limitations, temptations, and failures of the world that we reach our highest possibilities.

Nunca se debe gatear, cuando se tiene el impulso de volar (Never crawl when the impulse is to fly)

The writing process is the time where nothing's been set in stone. It's a blank slate, or a blank page.

It's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written.

Some of the best songs that I know are the ones I haven't written yet, and it doesn't even matter if I don't ever write them, because it's only small potatoes compared with the big picture.

Great touch is often written off simply as 'talent,' which is crucial, because a good swing can take a golfer only so far. I've seen thousands of fantastic swings in my day, but that doesn't guarantee anything.

An empty book is like an infant's soul, in which anything may be written. It is capable of all things, but containeth nothing. I have a mind to fill this with profitable wonders.

Clay can be dirt in the wrong hands, but clay can be art in the right hands.

Great software has seemingly limitless potential to solve human problems - and it can spread around the world in the blink of an eye. Malicious code moves just as quickly, and when software is created for the wrong reason, it has a huge and growing capacity to harm millions of people.